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Only bad things happen quickly… Virtually all the
happiness-producing processes in our lives take time, usually a long
time: learning new things, changing old behaviors, building satisfying
relationships, raising children. This is why patience and determination
are among life’s primary virtues. - Gordon Livingston

Life is a process that unfolds
gradually as we move through time and space. And yet, in today’s
fast-paced world we expect things to happen quickly. Patience is the
forgotten virtue. As soon as we get what we want we are already chasing
after another experience. Instant gratification is like a disease that
makes us blind to the real world out there. How can anyone with such an
affliction expect to be genuinely happy? - Dominique Allmon

The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another
human being with whom one’s relationship has a growing depth, beauty and
joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between
two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by
looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine
accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life. - Sir Hugh
Walpole

by Adyashanti
We can come to a place of deep, profound realization, which is
wonderful and very freeing, but the mistake that’s often made is that at
a later point, when the synchronicity or some other wonderful
experience is not happening, we think we have lost something. Actually,
that’s a particular interpretation that is rarely examined. What
actually happens is similar to the human experience of going through
developmental stages. Remember the experience of moving into
adolescence, when you’re twelve and a half, and you’re not there yet,
and you’re leaving childhood behind?

That which in childhood seemed so wonderful is no longer available.
The things that had been fun aren’t so much fun anymore, but the new
ways to enjoy life aren’t very obvious. It’s awkward and you make
mistakes, if they can even be called that. You can look back on that
time with a rather clear understanding. It wasn’t that you fell away
from childhood, it’s that you were outgrowing it. As you …